March 14
968: Demise of Matilda of Ringelheim, queen and mother of Emperor Otto I from Germany. She was very extremely pious, righteous and charitable and founded monasteries and churches.
1528: Basel passes a law that all Taeufers (Baptists, like Anabaptists) and their supporters shall be fined £5, since they excluded themselves from all state services, from the duty to engage in war and because they shunned the state church goers as sinners and didn’t mingle with society in general.
1559: John Calvin exhorted in a letter, “If your labors, where you now are, are sterile, and if here an abundant harvest awaits them, which is the most forcible tie? the one by which God draws you hither, or the one that detains you there?”.
1661: William Leddra of Barbadoes is executed as the last Quaker, who had to give his life for his faith. Quakers despised all other churches and disrespected and rejected the catholic values and teachings, which was the official religion of the state.
1908: The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, named as Baylor Theological Seminary, is chartered in Waco, Texas.
1912: Death of Albert L. Peace, one of the noted Scottish organists of his day, who composed many cantatas (vocal compositions with instrumental accompaniment, sung by choir in several movements), organ pieces and hymn tunes, including the enduring ST. MARGARET, to which the Church today sings George Matheson’s “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go.”
1930: Constantine Asklipiodovich Khlynov, an Orthodox priest serving at Novorozhdestvenka, Bolsherechensky region, Siberia, is arrested by Communists on charges of anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary propaganda and agitation. He was sentenced to death for the same “crime”.
1937: Arthur W. Pink, English Bible expositor, commended in a letter, “Neither the nearness nor the remoteness of Christ’s return is a rule to regulate us in the ordering of our temporal affairs. Spiritual preparedness is the great matter.”
1961: Publication of the New Testament of the New English Bible by both the Oxford and Cambridge University Presses simultaneously.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
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